Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Mass. Aeneas Holdings and Phemus gave the developer a $20 million loan. In exchange, Harvard acquired an interest in the land beneath the posh city landmark...
...Hollywood will change the nature of the early primary season. No longer will the candidate being interrogated by an Iowa farmer hold the nation's attention. Stump speeches to Iowa heartlanders and New Hampshire yankees might be more charming, but Morgan Fairchild introducing a candidate at the Century Plaza will certainly be glitzier...
...signed up for enough lectures to keep him running around the world at something like $1,000 a talking minute and has been certified as a top-drawer sidewalk superintendent for his presidential library, now a huge hole in the ground. He roams the 34th floor of Fox Plaza, high above Century City, trains binoculars on a tip of his Bel Air home, visible 3 miles away, and mutters dark incantations against a new high-rise going up in his field of view. He leans down with pride to show visitors the model of the Spanish-type library building...
Looking westward from his desk to Financial Plaza, the president of Harvard Management Company (HMC) can see the skyline rising sharply over the Charles River. But his view of Cambridge and the College he once attended has long been obstructed by the sprouting city core...
...spirit. The dimly lit cafes in which couples two months ago whispered fearfully over mugs of ersatz tea now ring with gossip over cups of real coffee. Rumanians who once shied in terror from contact with foreigners besiege me as soon as I open my notebook. In the vast plaza of Piata Unirii, crowds that would once have been swiftly dispersed by Securitate goons argue the merits of 30 new political parties, then race home to watch Rumania's hot new television show: taped excerpts from the trial of Ceausescu's top henchmen. In the final episode last week...